Property market
The five-year median is £182,500 from 2 recorded sales in IP31 2QF. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for West Suffolk is £296,879 in June 2026, up 1.6% year on year.
IP31 2QF
The Fornhams & Great Barton · West Suffolk · England
Updated September 2026
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- Post town
- Bury St Edmunds
- Local authority
- West Suffolk
- Constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
Nearby postcodes
Complete postcode fields and official codes
- Postcode
- IP31 2QF
- Status
- Current
- Introduced
- 1 January 1980
- Terminated
- Not published
- Postcode area
- IP
- Postcode district
- IP31
- Postcode sector
- IP31 2
- Latitude
- 52.276737
- Longitude
- 0.772180
- British National Grid easting
- 589,218
- British National Grid northing
- 267,905
Statistical and administrative geographies
- Country
- England · E92000001
- Region
- East of England · E12000006
- Local authority district
- West Suffolk · E07000245
- Electoral ward
- The Fornhams & Great Barton · E05012800
- Parish or community
- E04012715
- Westminster constituency
- Bury St Edmunds and Stowmarket · E14001146
- Output area
- E00153471
- Lower layer super output area
- West Suffolk 016A · E01030104
- Middle layer super output area
- West Suffolk 016 · E02006276
Postcode source versions
- Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
- Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence
Explore IP31
Property
4 recorded
sales at this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Vicarage Farm Cottage, Vicarage Farm Lane, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2QF | 22 March 2023 | £250,000 |
| Jubilee Farm, Vicarage Farm Lane, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2QF | 19 May 2022 | £115,000 |
| Vicarage Farm, 1, Vicarage Farm Lane, Great Barton, Bury St Edmunds, IP31 2QF | 15 July 2019 | £278,362 |
Schools
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
- Open schools
- 9
- Primary
- 4
- Secondary
- 2
- 713 m
Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy
Academy converter
- 3.4 km
Sir Peter Hall School
Free schools special
- 3.5 km
Thurston Community College
Community school
Recorded crime
Within 1 mile of this postcode
- Published events
- 39
- Months covered
- 12
- Latest month
- June 2026
Most recorded categories in this period
- Violence and sexual offences 9
- Other theft 7
- Anti social behaviour 6
- Other crime 5
- Criminal damage and arson 5
Census 2021
Population and age profile
- Postcode residents
- 11
- Postcode households
- 5
- Residents per household
- 2.2
- IP31 2 residents
- 8,206
6 female, 5 male
Age bands in IP31 2
Wider postcode sector- Age 0 to 14
- 16%
- Age 15 to 24
- 8.8%
- Age 25 to 44
- 19.7%
- Age 45 to 64
- 26.8%
- Age 65 and over
- 28.7%
1,385 residents
761 residents
1,705 residents
2,315 residents
2,488 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider IP31 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Fixed broadband coverage
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
- Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+
- 60%
- Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+
- 20%
- Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+
- 20%
- Gigabit-capable
- 20%
- Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband
- 0%
- Next Generation Access
- 100%
- Decent broadband available from fixed wireless
- 0%
Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
GP practices
2
within 5 km
MOUNT FARM SURGERY
LAWSON PLACE, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP32 7EW
ODS code D83038
4.0 km
SWAN SURGERY
NORTHGATE BUSINESS PARK, BURY ST. EDMUNDS, IP33 1AE
ODS code D83610
4.9 km
Main GP practices only; branch surgeries are excluded. Distances are straight-line. Contact the practice to check registration, services, opening hours and appointments.
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Nearby transport
- 0.2 miles
Free Church
BCT · Conyers Green
- 0.3 miles
Free Church
BCT · Conyers Green
- 0.4 miles
Conyers Way
BCT · Great Barton
- 0.4 miles
Conyers Way
BCT · Great Barton
- 0.5 miles
School
BCT · Great Barton
Relative deprivation
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for West Suffolk 016A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
9 of 10
Overall England rank
28,667 of 33,755
- Income
- 9 of 10
- Employment
- 9 of 10
- Education and skills
- 9 of 10
- Health and disability
- 10 of 10
- Crime
- 9 of 10
- Housing and services
- 2 of 10
- Living environment
- 9 of 10
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Flood risk
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
- High risk addresses
- 0
- Medium risk addresses
- 0
- Low risk addresses
- 0
- Groundwater flood alert area
- Unlikely
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
Evidence in context
Schools
9 open schools are in scope, including 4 primary and 2 secondary schools. Great Barton Church of England Primary Academy is the nearest published school at 713 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Recorded crime
39 published events cover 12 months, averaging 3.25 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 9 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.